Quotes about Employment

Businessman, Industrialist

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

Employment - Movement

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

Care - Ecology - Employment - Remembering

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Adam Smith

Author, Economist, Philosopher

The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

Employment - Labor - Meaning - Production - Productivity - Value

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Employment - Show

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

Employment - Man - Savagery

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Adam Smith

Author, Economist, Philosopher

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

Complain - Effectiveness - Employment - Merchant

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Jonathan Swift

Writer, Poet, Cleric

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Employment

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George Washington

Founding Father and Former President of the United States

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Adequacy - Employment - Finding - Politics

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Chanakya

Teacher, Philosopher, Royal Adviser

The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

Ability - Employment - Impossible - Meaning - Politics - Tasks

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

Employment - Resentment

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

Ability - Certainty - Children - Dawn - Destroying - Employment - Encouragement - Husband - Incentive - Order - Practice - Stupid - Trial

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Milton Friedman

Athlete, Economist, Economist

Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

Economy - Employment - Flexibility

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

Employment - Marking - Mindset - Protecting

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Employment - Production - Productivity - Value

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Constitution - Employment - Law - Liberty - People - Speaking - Vigilance - Welfare

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

Employment - Government - Law - Man - Meaning - Politics - Prosperity - State

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

Employment - Payment - Proof

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Richard Branson

Business Magnate, Investor, Author

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.

Betting - Employment - Leadership - Sameness - Tendency

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Employment - Greatness - Worth

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

Citizenry - Employment - Honesty - Meaning - Morals - Voting

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